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Vision test
Kyungnyun K. Richards
Translated from Korean by the authorSiryŏk kŏmsa : Kim Kyŏng-nyŏn Han-Yŏng sijip
Vision test, by Kyungnyun K. Richards and self-translated by the author from Korean, brings Korean-language poetry connected to Korea, Republic of into English through Korean expatriate self-measurement, bilingual testing, and vision treated as both body and language. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for vision, test, exile, and the strange exam of seeing oneself between languages, not as a fixed lesson about Korea, Republic of. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Vision test belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a Korean diasporic register of perception, self-translation, and unsettled belonging.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Korean Expatriate Literature
- Language
- Korean
- Country
- Korea, Republic of
- ISBN
- 9780893042202